Social Media As Evidence | Personal Injury
Social Media As Evidence Plaintiffs’ personal injury attorneys face new and difficult challenges associated with the proliferation of social media as evidence. Today, there are a multitude of platforms on which anyone can voluntarily share information about their daily lives and routines with other members of the public. As of the second quarter of 2018,…
BMW Recalls 1 Millions Vehicles Due To Fire Concerns
By Ben Zepnick of Grandelli & Eskenasi posted in Personal Injury law firm on Monday, November 20, 2017. BMW was recently forced to recall over 1 million cars and SUVs due to faulty crankcase heaters. According to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the heater, which is used to prevent the positive crankcase ventilation valve from freezing, was found to have manufacturing…
Illegal Elevator Falls, Breaking Woman’s Back
Earlier this month in New York City, a woman was seriously injured when the elevator she was riding in at her apartment building fell and crashed more than four floors. The force from the impact caused the woman to break her spine and other bones. According to a Department of Buildings official, the elevator was…
Louis Grandelli, P.C. Obtains $1 Million for Staten Island Construction Worker
The Law Office of Louis Grandelli recently obtained a $1 million settlement for a Staten Island construction worker who was injured at a construction site in Manhattan. The settlement was obtained by Louis Grandelli and Ari Lieberman during a mediation following the close of discovery. The plaintiff, a tile setter, was injured while working at the Fulton…
Amtrak Train Derails at NY Penn Station
This morning, at approximately 9 a.m., an Amtrak train derailed at Penn Station in New York City. The Amtrak Acela Express 2151 had been bound for Washington D.C., when it derailed and hit a New Jersey Transit passenger train. The impact caused a window on the train to blow out and significant damage to the…
NYC Doorman Killed In Slip and Fall During Snow Storm
A doorman was tragically killed on the Upper East Side while shoveling snow during the snowstorm this week. In what the New York Post dubbed a freak accident, Miguel Gonzalez, 59, slipped while he was shoveling snow, fell down a set of stairs, and had his throat slashed as he crashed through a window pane. As a…
E-Cigarette Explosions Causing Concern
A New York resident was seriously injured while smoking an e-cigarette. The device, alternatively known as a vaporizer, exploded in his face. The blast knocked out his teeth, ripped a hole in his tongue, and caused his hands to be covered in burns. “It was like an M80 bomb went off in my mouth,” the man,…
LIRR Commuter Train Crashes
A Long Island Rail Road train derailed during rush hour this morning in Brooklyn, injuring 103 people. Fire Department officials stated that the train from Far Rockaway derailed at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn when it struck a bumping block at track 6 in the terminal around 8:20 a.m., causing the first car to come off…
Baby Sisters Tragically Killed in Radiator Accident
Tragedy struck a family in the Bronx this week when a faulty radiator led to the deaths of two young sisters. The sisters, Ibanez Ambrose, 2-years-old, and Scylee, one-years old, were sleeping near the radiator in their family’s apartment. A law-enforcement source told the New York Post that the cause of their deaths was “probably a…
Manhattan Fire Kills One and Destroys Building
A six-alarm fire ripped through an apartment building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan last week, leaving one dead and more than a dozen injured. According to the FDNY, the fire started at about 3:20 a.m. in an apartment building on East 93rd Street in Yorkville. After extinguishing the flames, firefighters found the body…
